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  1. Re:See? Again with what I'm talking about on Cars Emit More Black Carbon Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    All the models also rely as a step integral to their calculation mid-troposphere warming that is at least as much as surface warming and in most models is in fact 50-100% more than surface warming. Instead the mid-troposphere levels have been increasing about half as fast as the surface levels. This means, unequivocally, that the current set of carbon forcing models are WRONG. Until that discrepancy is addressed, paying attention to what the models say might happen goes in the category of utter stupidity.

  2. Re:Consensus is also when groupthink happens on Cars Emit More Black Carbon Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    He got the fact wrong. The scientific consensus was that man could not survive breaking the sound barrier.

  3. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    Alternatively you wait and see what a brokered convention looks like.

  4. Re:Really? on Microsoft's Anti-Google Video Campaign · · Score: 1

    Japanese Lolita fashion has nothing to do with the book. Although it is very fricking bizarre stuff.

  5. Re:Forgery - (And obviously so) on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 1

    Note, I'm actually mostly agnostic on the issue itself since I've seen too many dishonest assholes and rent-seekers on both sides. I just find it utterly amusing that such a glaring issue with the CO2 forcing cycle is present, and yet those purporting the CO2 driven form of AGW never get around to that fact.

    Not to mention that if they are correct the only ways to actually solve the problem either are to remove humanity from the equation or massive geogineering. Cutting emissions by 50%, even if you managed to do so across the world, won't do jack shit.

  6. Re:Forgery - (And obviously so) on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 1

    If Climate Science is in fact a science, why does nobody correct the models which which as a lynchpin part of the theory they describe assume increased H2O levels in the mid troposphere when such levels are by no means evident?

  7. Why do I get the feeling that there is just as much cherry picking of data done by Altemeyer as anyone else. Thank Nuggin for PDF search. Oddly enough, Altemeyer does not consider gun control an authoritarian trait, even though it most certainly is such. I'm just gonna spitball here but given that he doesn't count an obviously authoritarian trait as authoritarian it is entirely probable that he missed others. This means that any study derived from his data sources is utter shit and can be readily ignored.

  8. Re:Right Wingers on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    The american revolution was NOT a violent revolution. The vast, vast majority of the violence was between military forces. Whereas the vast majoirty of the violence in the French revolution was against political enemies, with no regard to resistance. They fucking invented a machine designed for cutting off heads. That's fucked up right there.

  9. Re:authenticity confirmed on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    Yes... an extreme right wing hack who voted for Obama.

  10. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    Um.. No. At least for items 2 and 4. There would have been the same outcry over it.

  11. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 2

    They're going to subpeona from Heartland a memo that Heartland is stating is a forgery. A memo which has no identifier as to the creator or recipient. How does that work again?

  12. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    ALL of the authentic stuff in the memo was either copypastaed from the other documents or reworded from same documents.

  13. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, let's see. Except for the one document, ever single one is a professionally designed print to pdf document with creation dates in early and mid January and which has a timecode of CST the region where Heartland has it's main offices. The "memo" is a poorly scanned document that reads like a 8th grader's "how to talk like a supervillain" letter with plenty of copypasta and an outright falsehood. Namely that the Koch brother's donation was concerned with climate change. Given that the donation code was HCN and that Bayer AG and multiple other pharma and medical companies also have the same donation code this is unlikely to say the least. Then there's the fact that the memo was scanned in Februray with a timecode of PST. All in all, a shittastic smear job.

  14. Re:You'd think, but... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrong, they opt to make the most money with a supply ordained by the government, and not any sort of actual physical restrictions. If the government didn't artificially limit the supply, the companies would opt to make more money by filling both the more and less profitable markets, because both are still profitable.

  15. Ah, central planning. on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there no enterprise you can't utterly fuck up?

  16. Re:Not thoroughly researched? That's precious. on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 1

    Gally boy only got in trouble because he was an asshole, NOT because of his science. I'll note he had his head stuck firmly up his ass when it came to comets and his treatment of Grassi was a big part of the reason none of the other astronomers of the day backed him against the papal inquisition.

  17. Re:Actually sounds reasonable on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 1

    This would only be obligatory if the union had formed in Second Life and was demanding these safety measures for their virtual characters.

  18. Re:Breaking news on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    Not really misogynist though. That could merely be construed as someone politely telling you you're nuttier than a fruitcake without any regards to gender.

  19. Re:Swords on Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen · · Score: 1

    Blocking the opponent's weapon becomes much more important when they're just as likely to kill or seriously maim you if you first hit doesn't kill them outright.

  20. Re:Not a problem... on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 1

    Rather, everyone has heard buffet LIE that he pays a lesser percentage than his secretary does. You'll notice how he never actually explained how he arrived at the figures he used or how a woman that lives in two different houses in two different states and owns both outright is only paid 60,000 dollars a year.

  21. Re:Two rules on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 1

    *blinks* Um, no. Do you know how many times the French government has changed since the initial kick off the the french revolution? Well, obviously not. Suffice it to say France has undergone changes in government as often as a male porn star goes through condoms.

  22. Re:Wrong. on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually it is a double dip because corporate taxes have a depressive effect on stock price. Not nearly as great an effect as they have on dividends, but still an effect.

  23. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 1

    Look, the fact that the cops were too fucking stupid to have a single gun on hand as powerful as your average deer rifle does NOT justify the ever increasing militarization of the cops.

  24. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2

    Thus proving, once again, that the rest of the world is full of fucking idiots. Not that they have a monopoly on that, just that they express themselves differently. But I have no doubt our own idiots will come out in favor of such a regime if this case gets enough media attention.

  25. Re:Let alone on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    A systematic campaign against US civilians is utterly different than a single incident with neophyte troops where less than 10 people died. So too is the SPE, which assumes that the only authority is the guy running the experiment.